#1957

Odd choice of words here. Why bring up rappers?

#1959

Thanks to your post I picked up a copy of The House of the Tree of Sores and it’s incredible. Thanks for sharing!

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#1960

Been on a N. K. Jemisin kick lately.
Now reading “How Long Till Black Future Month”
Also tore thru “The Broken Earth Trilogy”, “The City We Became” and “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”. “How Long…” is a great introduction to her work and world building, as it’s a collection of short stories, existing in a vast array of realities. My wife and I adore Octavia Butler and this gets me back in that zone.

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#1961

Just finished “This is How You Lose the Time War.” Good time travel romance action conundrums!

Last book of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy next.

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#1962

don’t want to make a big thing about it but this whole “rapper” line of yours could be construed as eerily close to “shut up and dribble.”

#1963

I am reading “the uses of enchantment” by Bruno Bettelheim and i can only say that it IS as fascinating and revelatory as i suspected from Kubricks and other’s uses of it.
I am teaching a storytelling course and we start with Faairy Tales before we move to mythic overlays with Joseph Campbell etc… and i had heard it mentioned so many times so i grabbed a paperback of it and it surely delivers

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#1964

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#1965

Really enjoyed that Gregory Taylor book.

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#1966

Really enjoyed the Cipriani / Giri book !

:slight_smile:

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#1967

I really enjoy both ^^

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#1968

about to start reading it, but seems like a good one!

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#1969

me too, im stuck in the filters section…

#1970

slowly but surely making my way through this tome, super fun read

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#1971

Just arrived …,.,

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#1972

It just flows really well.
It isn’t just a “nuts and bolts of max/msp” or even a “nuts and bolts of sequencing” book. It’s both of those things but it’s also a kind of primer on what you might call ‘systemic thinking’. It’s almost like a crime novel in terms of “where’s it going to go next” suspense!

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#1973

Odd coincidence, I just started that book! I’m looking forward to it. I don’t remember how I get turned onto it, but there was probably a Kubrick connection as well.

#1974

Have you seen this?

What do you think? Do you know any of these authors?

#1975

Tim Powers is generally fun (thoough I didn’t know he ever wrote sci fi), and Jane Yolen can be. Otherwise it doesn’t look like a great collection to me, honestly.

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#1976

I coincidentally read two books in a row where the British prime minister is a dark magician:

The setting is the French and Haitian Revolutions and the abolitionist movement in Britain, but where magic is real (and reserved for aristocrats). Seems like a fun concept, but the book itself was generally drier than I expected. True to the spirit of history, if not the letter of real history – things don’t really conclude satisfactorily, good intentions often lead to abuses, no ethical system is completely internally consistent, etc.

This begins a new series after the end of the Laundry Files and the failure of its mission. The world is now ruled by tyrannical and mercurial elder gods, and magic and strange superpowers are on the rise. The original series was a wild mix of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and bureaucratic humor; the new cast of characters is a bit more punk and it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a full-on rebellion as the series progresses.

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#1977

Dead Lies Dreaming, loved the book but I had one complaint… it was too short.

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